St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05

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! Tor the relief of the Jeanette sufferers;
amendatory of the act dividing Illinois into
Juaicla' districts. and providing Tor the mold
ing Oh terms of court at Peoria; to loan ar
ticies In the government departments 10 the
minnesota Industrial exposition: 10 regulate
| the Jurisdiction OF United States circuit
courts; Tor the adjustment of the land grants
auu tue forfeiture of unearned lands; tor lne
! fehei OF settlers on the public lands in Kan
sas una Nebraska; to provide Tor bringing
sui's against the government; Ior
me erection of public buildings at
Los Angeles, Cul. s ,rncfield, Mo-. Ell Paso,
| rex santa Fe, N. NJ, and Jefferson, rex,
10 increase the limit of cost OF public build
ings at Peoria, Ill.,; Galveston, Tex; Clarks-
| burg Va: Keokuk, la; for the completion or
improvement of public buildings at Dallas,
rex; Des Moines, Ia; Jackson. Tenn, aId
HANNIBAL, Mo-; for the purchase OF additional
GROUND Tor the building at Fort Wayne, ma;
TOT the purchase of site for the federal
| building at San Francisco.
Forty house Joint resolutions became
laws the principal ones icing as follows:
for the settlement OF the accounts OF the
Mooile " Ohio road; directing the commits
sioher OF labor to make an investigation of
convict labor; authorizing the secretary OF
the interior to ascertain uneXpended balance
Tor the relief of the Northern Cheyennes OF
wyoming: to authorize the president 10 pro-
iect American fsning vessels ana Am erican
nshermen in Canada 1.-THE senate retaliation
DID; authorizing an investigation OF the
books ana accounts of the Pacific road.
OF the total number OF bills which passed
the senate $50 became laws. including | Is
| OF public and 205 OF strictly private
nature. The following is a list of the
MORE IMPORTANT SENATE BILLS
placed on the statute books by the present
congress:
The presidential succession. bill devolving
the cabinet in the event OF Il vacancy i'll the
Office of president and vice president; the
CuliomReagan bill to regulate interstate
commerce; for the retirement and recoinage
of trade dollars: the electoral count bill: for
the allotment of lands i'll severalty to Indians,
and extending the protection of the laws to
Indians on the various reservations; to bridge
the Arthur Kill; TO repeal the tenure
OF Office act; TO Increase the annual
appropriation for militia: to establish agri-
cultural experiment stations; for the study
OF the effects of narcotics an intoxcants in
the public schools; to legali2e the incorpora-
ton OF trades unions; authorizing the trans
mission OF weather reports through the mail
free from postage; to increase the pension
for the loss of an arI:i or leg; to indemnity
the Chinese for loss sus aimed by the Rock
Springs riots; for the relief of Texas, Color
ado, Ofcgon, Nebraska, California. Washing
ton Territory and idaho; for the settlement of
claims for arms between Montana and the
from charges account of ordnance
stores furnished the state and territory; to
relinquiSh the interest of the United States in
certain lots to the city and county of San
Francisco; for the holding of terms of the
United States courts at Bay City, Mich; to
G ;tablish two additional land districts in Ne
braska: to amend the laws relating to patents,
trade marks and copyrights: to extend the
time for the completion OF the record of the
court OF Alabama claims; to credit Kansas
with certain money on ordnance account; to
authorize the postmaster general to allow
compensation for railroad apartment car SER
vice furnished pursuant to agreement; to
bridge the Mississippi near st. Louis; to es-
tablish military post at Denver, COL; TO
provide for the execution of article 2 of the
Chinese treaty of Nov. II, 1870.
OF THE FOREGOING MEASURES
seven became laws by the expiration of the
constitutional ten days limit: The Mormon
polygamy bill; the trade dollar; the militia,
and four private bills The senate bills
vetoed were 80 in Number, IL being of pub
lie and % of private character. The public
bills vetoed were as follows:
To quiet the titles of settlers on the Des
MoineS river lands (passed over the veto in
the senate, failed of the two-thirds in the
house,; for the erection of public buildings
at GAINESVILLE, o., Lafayette, Ind, Sioux Civ,
Ia, Dayton, o, (passed over the veto in both
houSes); and Lynn, KAN; to extend the pro-
visions of the immediate transportation act to
Omaha, Neb.; to grant railroads right OF way
through the Indian reservation i'll Montana.
The ninety-three house bills vetoed in
cluded eighty-seven private bills and six
bills of public nature. The
PUBLIC BILLS VETOED WERE:
The erection of federal buildings a Spring
field. Mo-, Duluth, Mimi, Ashevlle, n. c.,
and Portsmouth. o.. to distribute 800. 900
IF strin Eay,
people of Texas, and to grant pensions to de-
pendent relatives OF deceased soldiers.
| An effort made to pass the dependent
pension bill over the veto failed The reg
ular appropriation bills which failed of en-
actment were the fertilization bill for both
congresses. the river and harbor bill of the
present session (Which was not signed by
the presdent), and the deficiency bill, OH
which the conference report was not sub
mitted in time for action. The
failure of the fOrtification bill
was due to decided differences of opin-
ion between the conferees of the two
houses. Fifty bills in addition to those
which became laws and those vetoed were
sent to the president but were pocketed by
him on the adjournment of congress and
therefore failed. The most important are
as follows:
The river and harbor; to prevent the en-
ployment of convict and alien labor on public
works; to open to settlement the public land
strip south Of Kansas: for the construction
of federal buildings at Monroe, La, and Sagi-
nav, Mich; the ONeil labor arbitration bill
for the settlement of controversies between
interstate roads and their employees; the
Morrison surplus resolutions. to annex a part
of Idaho to Washington Territory; for
holding terms of court at Duluth, MINI.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
forfeiture bill and the bill to repeal the
presumption, homestead, timber culture
and desert land laws were in conference
for a long while but the differences proved
irreconcilable. The bill to tax fractional
parts of gallon of spirits was killed by
refusal Of the house to accept the confer
ence report. Bills establishing additional
aids to navigation at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi and fOrfeiting the land grant to
railroad from Ontonagan to the Wisconsin
state line also failed in conference, while
the bill to create department of agriculture
and labor was killed by the inability of its
friends to send it to conference commit
tee. About $50 bills and joint resolutions
which passed the house failed of action in
the senate, some of which were defeated by
adverse committee reports. The most i'm
portant of these are as follows;
To authorize the establishment of export
tobacco manufactures and for draw back
upon imported articles used in manufactur-
ing exported tobacco; to terminate certain
Chinese treaty stipulations and prohibit the
Chinese immigration in the United States.
Many bills passed by the senate failed of
passage in the house. The Blair educa-
tional bill after passing the senate was buff
feted about from one committee to another
in the house. and was never allowed to
come before the house for action, although
its friends claimed decided majority i'm it's